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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0527 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 518.] AN ACT
To compensate Tames Guild and others for arresting Wil.
liam Kirby, a fugitive from justice.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent-
atives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly, convened,
That the sum of four hundred dollars is hereby appropria-
ted to compensate James Guild, Joseph King, Green Car-
ver, Thomas J. Bennett, Samuel B. King, Wm. Burgess, J.
D. Sanders, jr., and others, constituting the company for
pursuing and arresting William Kirby, who killed his
father and brother in Pickens county, in the spring of
1859, and that the Controller issue his warrant for the
same, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, and that Alexander B. Clitherall, of
Pickens, be authorized to receipt to the Controller for said
warrant.
APPROVED, February 22, 1860.
No. 514.] AN ACT
To enable Lucy Green, of Coosa county, and Corn, of Chnn-
bers county, free women of volor, to become slave o, and
to repeal the 5th section of an act, approved February
10th, 1860.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House qf Represent-
atives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened,
That Licy Green, of Coosa county, may become the slave Lucr area,
of Daniel Crawford, of Coosa county, by filing in person,
her application in writing in the probate court of said county
stating that she is a free woman of color and her age, and
that she of her own free will and accord, without fear or
undue influence, desires to become the slave of said Craw-
ford, and that he is a resident citizen of the county of Coosa,
and that he is a suitable person to become the master of the
said applicant; therefere, it shall be the duty of the judge
to examine the applicant concerning her freelom of action
in the premises privately, and explain to her the effect
thereof; and if of opinion that she comprehends the effect
of the act, and that she is acting without fear or undue
influence, he shall make an order appointing a day, not less
than ten nor more than twenty days, and all give the
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